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Japanese Curry! Steak! Biscuits

: orangeslice wrote in picturing_food; December 30th, 19:43

Current Mood:: hungry

( Click to See My Cooking! )

Christmas Sugar Cookies

: sara_k_s wrote in bakebakebake; December 30th, 17:25

( 2 more pictures and recipes )

Tags: !holiday post, cutout cookies, frostings and icings

Lunar Festival Cake

: ladycrim wrote in bakebakebake; December 30th, 12:30

Current Mood:: accomplished

I recently auctioned off a custom-made cake as part of a fundraiser. The winner asked me to make a cake for last week's Lunar Festival, based on a picture he gave me. Here's how it turned out:

Not as perfect as I'd have liked - not least because it cracked across the middle - but overall, I'm pretty proud of it.

Tags: !decorating, !picture post

Peanut Blossom Cookies

: minxy_baby wrote in bakebakebake; December 30th, 10:49

This is such a fun recipe to make with kids. There's making the dough, rolling the dough into balls, rolling the balls in sugar, and then squishing in the chocolates. My daughter loved it. And the cookies taste so good. They were still soft and delicious the next day.

( Recipe )

Gilberto's in Fairfield

: 5251962 wrote in picturing_food; December 30th, 16:31

Current Location:: Fairfield, TX

Current Mood:: cheerful

Oh my gosh, the noms at this place.

mcmute was really shocked because the last time he'd been there it was about 2004- and they have apparently changed a great deal.
( More photos behind the cut. ) Edit: Fixed the initial photo size, just in case. I didn't want to be too big and take up people's friendslists.

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: evolve wrote in bakebakebake; December 30th, 21:12

So, I cook at a retirement village and every day I have to bake for morning and afternoon teas in addition to the regular meals. This is honestly the most exciting part of my job, but I have one tiny problem. We have 8 diabetic residents, and I always run out of time/energy/creative power and end up giving them peanut butter and sugar free jam sandwiches for tea. I feel really bad about this! So what I need are some tasty and quick recipes for diabetic-friendly baked goods..

Tags: !recipe request

Recipe request: Apple[sauce] cupcakes

: bluemotion wrote in bakebakebake; December 30th, 12:35

I need a recipe for apple spice cupcakes - but they need to have applesauce in them, not chopped apples, in order to save time and cut costs. All the recipes I've found so far either use chopped apples, or do have applesauce but are more like muffins. I could just take my pumpkin spice cupcake recipe and mess around with it a bit, but I wanted to try this first. Thanks guys.

Tags: !recipe request, apples, cinnamon, cupcakes, spice cake

Cupcakes timeline

: mumutchan wrote in bakebakebake; December 30th, 15:31

( cupcakes overload )

Showy recipes

: ala_too wrote in bakebakebake; December 29th, 22:52

I want to back something for New Year's Eve. I'd prefer it to look showy and special but don't want to rely on foundant for the looks. I'm a good cook so complex isn't an issue. I'd like it to be a cake rather than cookies. Any suggestions?

Peanut Blossom Cookies

: minxy_baby wrote in picturing_food; December 30th, 10:50

( Recipe )

pumpkin chocolate brownies!

: wantsconebone wrote in bakebakebake; December 30th, 0:11

I made these last night and i am surprised i have not demolished the entire batch yet. Pumpkin is no longer just a fall item for me after making these. Also, this is my first post so i wanted to say hi or something and tell you all that this community makes me terribly happy.

More pictures and link after the cut!

( nom nom nom )

and visit my new blog -- http://freshlywhipped.blogspot.com/ -- for more pictures and the recipe!

Tomato Jam Tart

: yummyfoodies wrote in picturing_food; December 30th, 14:22

I never was a jam person but once i heard about this tomato jam i had to try it. it was so so easy to make and quite unusual. i mean i always hear about fruit jams... and once i even ate an eggplant jam (yeah- i know its way- weird) but tomato jam just struck me as a quirck. may be its just me :) so after i made a third batch of it i wanted to make something with it coz- i mean how much jam can u eat. and here it is!
http://www.yummyfoodies.com/en/posts/show/86

Pong Burger

: mhaithaca wrote in picturing_food; December 29th, 22:57

Staci's lunch at Prize Diner, Ithaca.

No baking powder/soda?

: krystina wrote in bakebakebake; December 29th, 20:16

I'm dying to bake something, but am currently lacking ingredients. I have flour, sugar, things like peanut butter/chocolate chips/fruit etc, but no baking soda or powder. Can you possibly recommend some recipes that don't require baking soda/powder? I know that it sounds silly, but I really want to bake, haha.

Chocolate Buttermilk Sheet Cake with Chocolate Buttermilk Frosting

: _buenavista wrote in bakebakebake; December 29th, 15:34

I hope that everyone had a fantastic holiday season. Kramer and I celebrated with my parents on Christmas Eve, then had a Festivus breakfast yesterday morning with his dad, his dad's girlfriend, and his sister. My parents gave Kramer and I tickets to Rome for our honeymoon and these awesome union suit pajamas (pictured are my brothers, Dane (19) and Wyatt (16), Kramer, and myself). My brothers also got me the Tracy Morgan autobiography, I Am The New Black, which I'm really excited to read! Kramer's dad (check out his golfing blog, Journey to St. Andrews) got me a bread-maker (which I will be putting to good use very soon) and a pasta roller attachment for my KitchenAid mixer! You can all thank him for the inevitable carb-o-loading you'll soon be witnessing on here.

When I originally found this recipe, it was advertised as a recipe for buttermilk brownies. Interesting, I thought, I've never seen a brownie recipe that used buttermilk before. That's probably because this recipe ended up being for cake and not for brownies. As I added the flour into the wet mixture, I knew it was much, much too thin to ever be brownie batter. No matter, though, because there's nothing wrong with rich, moist chocolate cake! The buttermilk made a big difference in the texture and taste of this cake. It was so tender and the crumb sticks perfectly together while still being light, fluffy, and delicate. The frosting is ridiculously simple and is as good as it is easy to make. If you need something quick to whip up for a New Year's party, this is the thing! Just slice into small bites and place in muffin liners for clean, easy snacking. If you haven't had a fantastic piece of chocolate cake in a while, let me help you out: make this today! Recipe after the cut or on my blog at The Crepes of Wrath.

( Chocolate Buttermilk Sheet Cake with Chocolate Buttermilk Frosting )

Tags: chocolate

is it bread? Is it chicken?

: youmetogether wrote in bakebakebake; December 29th, 14:29

Crack it open and you'll find out!

Flour and pastry crust Chicken. Recipe from Jamie Oliver's: Happy Days with the Naked Chef!
More here: YouMeTogether

Taco Stuffed Crescent Rolls

: layers_of_eli wrote in bakebakebake; December 29th, 13:30

This is one of my favorite quick and easy dinner options: Taco Stuffed Crescent Rolls. You can bake them with Pillsbury (or generic) big and buttery crescents, or use leftover yeast roll dough. They're stuffed with a creamy, gooey, cheesy, spicy, meaty mixture and topped with toasted cheddar. Even more delicious than the sum of their parts!

( recipes and photo )

To read more about this recipe, send me free biscuits, or just to see more photos, please head over to my baking blog, Willow Bird Baking!

x-posted to bakebakebake and cooking

Tags: savory